Capacity Development
January – September 2023 GLEE is a five-year project from 2018 to 2023 implemented by Winrock International that aims to increase access to education for girls aged 10–18 in target areas of the Kayes and Mopti regions of Mali. The project is designed to achieve this goal through community mobilization, participatory capacity-building, mentorship, and peer learning. GLEE also uses social behavior change communication with respect to girls’ education, safety, and health; and provides scholarships, and teaching and learning materials, to schools and health workers. To help girls develop in a better environment, the project will improve access to water, sanitation,…
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September 2022 – September 2027 The USAID/Malawi Next Generation Early Grade Reading Activity (NextGen) will solidify and build on the progress to date of Malawi’s National Reading Program towards improving the delivery of high-quality early primary reading instruction in all Malawian primary schools. At the end of NextGen, at least 30% of Malawian second grade children will demonstrate grade-level reading proficiency in Chichewa as defined by the Global Proficiency Framework. In addition, at least 30% of NextGen’s beneficiaries will also demonstrate measurable improvements in English oral expression and in the essential sub-skills of reading in English. To achieve this goal,…
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November 2021 – September 2022 The Government of Cape Verde is committed to improving the quality of education in the country. In order to strengthen foundational skills in education, the Education and Skills Development Enhancement Project, funded by the World Bank since 2018, supports the establishment and operationalization of a student assessment system within the ministry of education to accompany and monitor the ongoing education reform. As part of this work, the ministry of education of Cape Verde contracted EdIntersect to carry out an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) study in Cape Verde in tandem with ministry staff in 2022.…
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October 2020 – October 2025 The goal of the USAID Learn Together Activity (LTA) is to improve primary students’ learning skills (Grades 1-4), with a particular focus on improving reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, and mathematics. Through this program, USAID intends to support the Tajikistan Ministry of Education and Science’s capacity to take on greater responsibility for improving literacy and numeracy skills to impact the overall primary students’ learning outcomes. Intended coverage is nationwide (at least 80 percent of primary schools) with attention to focus on regions with historically lower learning outcomes. The activity purpose will be achieved through the…
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October 2016 – June 2021 The Senegal All Children Reading project, known as Lecture Pour Tous, was a USAID-funded project implemented by Chemonics International from 2016 to 2021. The project supported the Ministry of Education in developing a sustainable and scalable national reading program in three national languages (Wolof, Pulaar, and Seereer), and implemented interventions to improve early grade reading instruction in public primary schools and daaras, improve delivery systems for early grade reading instruction, and improve parent and community engagement in early grade reading. EdIntersect took a lead role on Output 1.4: “Early Grade Reading Assessment Improved” under Outcome…
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September 2016 – November 2021 Soma Umenye (‘read and understand’) was a five-year USAID-funded activity, implemented by Chemonics International between 2016 and 2021, which aimed to improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for more than 1 million children in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda. Covering all five provinces of Rwanda and working in close collaboration with the Rwanda Education Board and the Rwandan Ministry of Education, Soma Umenye contributed to Rwanda’s Education Sector Strategic Plan and the government of Rwanda’s national development priority of ensuring that Rwandan primary-grade students acquire the fundamental competency of literacy so that they can succeed…
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December 2015 – February 2016 EdIntersect worked with grantee organizations of the Banyan Tree Foundation in Kenya and Sierra Leone to refine activities and outcomes for remediation and life skills interventions as part of their adolescent program strategies. The Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) and Defence for Children International of Sierra Leone (DCI-SL) are moving into more focused work with upper primary and lower secondary schoolchildren to ensure smooth transitions into studies beyond early primary school and to meet the particular needs of adolescents.
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August – October 2015 EdIntersect designed and facilitated a human-centered design workshop with grantee organizations from Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nepal, and Ethiopia on mentorship and leadership-focused work. The overarching goal was to bring all country teams to the workshop site in northern Virginia to gain greater insight in designing programs with and for adolescents. These programs were intended to drive academic progress, in particular reading and numeracy remediation, and to mitigate dropout in upper primary school and secondary school. EdIntersect prepared the workshop taking into account the current work of each grantee in early primary programming, sustainability, and monitoring and…
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January – February 2015 EdIntersect used human-centered design to facilitate, synthesize, and provide final products for the Girls’ Education & Empowerment Consultative Meeting with CARE education, health, livelihoods and country office staff from 9 countries, as well as key external partners and donors from literacy, gender, youth, social inclusion, and tech organizations. Through this consultative process, EdIntersect and the partners developed a theory of change for guidance in CARE’s 2015-2020 programming. The workshop final report from EdIntersect was circulated to all involved partners and disseminated across the girls’ education and empowerment community.
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April – July 2014 Using human-centered design, EdIntersect created CARE USA’s 2015-2020 education sector strategy. Our approach built on CARE’s strengths and their targeted growth areas in order to help them achieve their mission of reaching the most marginalized. EdIntersect included creative, participatory strategic planning, an intersectional lens for reaching the most marginalized populations, and a design-thinking approach to problem solving. The EdIntersect team developed a literature review, trends analysis, interview summary report, and draft and final strategy documents. The strategy was well received by partners and funders, who recognized an adept blend of CARE’s legacy and CARE’s future.
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